I've been fighting a terrible sore throat and cold all week and bored... and tired... and in an attempt to cheer up, i was on the hunt on Netflix for a tasteful comedy.
Ben Stiller kept me and 'R' in splits through-out the length of the movie. If you video-taped us, we would be captured laughing out aloud or grinning as the "drama" unfolded. It was like being at a family re-union and watching the lively, exuberant sparks fly.
I was watching good-hearted Greg, delightfully horrified and mouth agape, for his next faux-pas. Robert De Niro played the suspicious father perfectly...in fact, one could not enjoy this movie without such a perfect performance from the irritated father.
Looking forward to watching the two film sequels - Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers, sometime in the future.
Everthing that can go wrong, goes wrong in this side-splitting comical story. So, if you find yourself powerless on a cold, blue... gloomy, dreary day...expect to snap out of it in merriment. It worked for me!
If you care for my prescription, here it is: Laughter is by definition healthy, so heal through laughter.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
~W. H. Auden
Did you ever wonder if there is a real Focker out there ?
ReplyDeleteJust before the release of "Meet the Fockers" Universal's publicity people came up with the idea of holding a "Focker Family Reunion" -- inviting anyone in the country who shared the "unfortunate" last name of the movie's central character to enter a sweepstakes.
Twenty-five Focker families, the movie company said, would be chosen for an all-expenses-paid weekend and "reunion" at Universal Orlando Resort.
As they waited, and waited, for entries to flood in it became clear that somebody had, uh, messed up. There are few, if any, real Fockers in America.
To sidestep a public-relations fiasco, the movie company was forced to alter its original sweepstakes rules and allow entries from Canada, where the only significant concentration of Fockers in North America lives.
Universal ended up inviting about 20 Fockers from British Columbia and a Cleveland family whose name was close -- Foecking.
.... http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/07/entertainment/et-fockers7
Awesome tid-bit!!! :))
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